Lots of respect.
Shabbat and Peretz at Hichal Menorah (photo: Señor Ansi, Zalmonela)
Shlomi Shabbat and Moshe Peretz's joint show, "Relatives", is somewhat reminiscent of the composition of Berry Sakharof and Dodo Tessa.
Two stars, old with young;
The oldest among them is a Turk, who likes connections with other singers and musicians;
Common language;
A never-ending string of hits;
Quality music;
An audience that loves both;
And the question Peretz asked Shabbat at the beginning of the show, which is also the question every Tessa and Sakharoff fan asked themselves last year: "How come this didn't happen before?".
But every celebration has its time, and the current time is an era where every singer with two and a half hits fills Menorah Hall on its 8,000 seats as a matter of course.
An era in which young male and female singers, whose names mean nothing to the average Israeli on the street (let alone knowing their songs), announce sold outs by Yad Eliyahu bahlan ahlan.
In this era, an icon like Shabbat and a star like Peretz combine forces to reap the same achievement.
The explanation for this is simple: Shabbat and Peretz, whose names are known in every household, appear quite a bit at weddings and other private events and thus "burn" a lot of the audience who enjoy them at those events without purchasing a ticket, compared to younger stars who appear less often at weddings, and to see them you have to come to those events Big shows.
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A pan-Israeli icon.
Shlomi Shabbat (Photo: Senor Ansi, Zalmonela)
The joint performance of Shabbat and Peretz restores respect to the Israeli Mediterranean music genre, which was once called simply "oriental".
It starts with the casting: Shlomi Shabbat is a cultural icon, an all-Israeli singer, and his huge repertoire is like a huge wall to lean against, built of huge stones that he has collected over the years, from classics like "Because of the Spirit", "Everyone has one", "Metokim", " Señorita", "In the beginning of the world", "Let you know that I am", "Father", "And I sing", "You have", "On the beach of Traptoni" - a very partial list.
Some would say he is the greatest soul singer we have ever seen, but he is also rock and pop and Turkish and Greek and Spanish and romance.
He is a member of the "desert generation" of the Mediterranean, who ate the gravel and lay on fences in the 80's and 90's for the genre to break through the walls.
When he stood, at the age of 68, on his prominence in the hall from which he will hardly move during the show, his voice, his soul, his charisma,
Moshe Peretz is the sharp spearhead of the Mizrahi generation, who broke out in a big way a decade and a half ago and made Mediterranean music the hottest thing in the country.
An excellent singer, a diverse creator who is always looking for the next thing, a versatile artist who can bomb at any tempo and in any genre and has accumulated a long list of hits ("Fire", "Fireworks", "Mother's Hero", "Just Want to Dance", "Carmela" ", "A thousand times", "The signs of the times", "The old taste" and more) A great performer and entertainer who knows how to put on a show, move, dance and activate the audience, with a million dollar smile, link pieces that he performs with grace and lightness and a captivating presence.
Peretz gave Shabbat a lot of respect in this show, treated him like a teacher, a mentor, a great father, hugged him and let him be the basis of the cake, when he was the one responsible for the filling, the cream and the decorations.
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The sharp point of the Mizrahi generation.
Peretz (photo: Señor Ansi, Zalmonela)
The connection between them was good, worked well, shot fireworks here and there, but was not perfect.
For perfection you have to run together for a period, more than two and a half weeks of rehearsals.
A beautiful moment was recorded when Manor Shabbat (the daughter) and Nir Peretz (the brother) joined in the string "Father" and "Hero of Mother" to sing in the quartet.
Another interesting and complex moment was the combination of "Shatdaei Shani" with "Fireworks", when in a certain segment Shabbat and Peretz sang both songs at the same time, with different words - a gimmick that worked well for Rami and Rita - and managed to both arouse admiration and confuse a little.
The Turkish string lasted 11 minutes, went into the hardcore of the Turkish and Eastern genres, combined it with hits from both and lifted Menorah to her feet.
7 minutes into the string, Peretz pulled out "Ash" and the power of the crowd's singing surprised even the experienced Shabbat.
Also other verses, Greek, Spanish, "sweet", and a long line of hits lifted the audience again and again from the chairs to their feet.
A celebration of fun.
A revolution of joy, which included gestures within the rosaries, such as Yoav Yitzchak's "Face of a Malach".
After almost two hours of a show, it turns out that the hits that others would kill for like "Who loves you more than me" and "A glass of wine" - were simply left out.
A special moment.
Shabbat and Peretz with daughter Manor and brother Nir (photo: Senior Ansi, Zalmonela)
The extended ensemble, befitting the status, included 11 musicians and two backing singers, and featured stars such as Amit Harel on piano and keyboards and Omari Zelig with baglama, bouzouki and acoustic guitar.
Even the band of drummers joined twice.
It was not a kitschy show or full of gimmicks (there were no marriage proposals, for example), and the emphasis was on the music itself, which sounded like a winding and spectacular trip within the vast Mediterranean genre, with its many shades, from the consensus to the margins and back.
Shlomi Shabbat is the king of compositions, and behind him are three albums with "friends", tours with Pablo Rosenberg and Yehuda Polikar.
Moshe Peretz also made sure over the years to collaborate with Eyal Golan, Omer Adam and other friends of the genre.
There is a feeling that this show, which was born from the duet "Relatives", will give birth to another show at the hall and maybe from here a collaboration will develop that will wander into the summer, and like Sakharof and Tessa, will re-conquer the country for both of them.
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